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<H3>ACT I</h3>
<h3>PROLOGUE</h3>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.0.1>Two households, both alike in dignity,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.2>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.3>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.4>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.5>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.6>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.7>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.8>Do with their death bury their parents' strife.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.9>The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.10>And the continuance of their parents' rage,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.11>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.12>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.13>The which if you with patient ears attend,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.14>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE I. Verona. A public place.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.1>Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.2>No, for then we should be colliers.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.3>I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.4>Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.5>I strike quickly, being moved.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.6>But thou art not quickly moved to strike.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.7>A dog of the house of Montague moves me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.8>To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.9>therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.10>A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.11>take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.12>That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.13>to the wall.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.14>True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.15>are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.16>Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.17>to the wall.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.18>The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.19>'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.20>have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.21>maids, and cut off their heads.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.22>The heads of the maids?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.23>Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.24>take it in what sense thou wilt.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.25>They must take it in sense that feel it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.26>Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.27>'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.28>'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.29>hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.30>two of the house of the Montagues.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.31>My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.32>How! turn thy back and run?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.33>Fear me not.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.34>No, marry; I fear thee!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.35>Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.36>I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.37>they list.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.38>Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.39>which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.40>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.41>I do bite my thumb, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.42>Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.43>[Aside to GREGORY]  Is the law of our side, if I say</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.44>ay?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.45>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.46>No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.47>bite my thumb, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.48>Do you quarrel, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.49>Quarrel sir! no, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.50>If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.51>No better.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.52>Well, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>GREGORY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.53>Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.54>Yes, better, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>ABRAHAM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.55>You lie.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>SAMPSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.56>Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.</A><br>
<p><i>They fight</i></p>
<p><i>Enter BENVOLIO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.57>Part, fools!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.58>Put up your swords; you know not what you do.</A><br>
<p><i>Beats down their swords</i></p>
<p><i>Enter TYBALT</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.59>What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.60>Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.61>I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.62>Or manage it to part these men with me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.63>What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.64>As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.65>Have at thee, coward!</A><br>
<p><i>They fight</i></p>
<p><i>Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.66>Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.67>Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.68>What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.69>A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.70>My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.71>And flourishes his blade in spite of me.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.72>Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>LADY MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.73>Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PRINCE, with Attendants</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.74>Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.75>Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.76>Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.77>That quench the fire of your pernicious rage</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.78>With purple fountains issuing from your veins,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.79>On pain of torture, from those bloody hands</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.80>Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.81>And hear the sentence of your moved prince.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.82>Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.83>By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.84>Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.85>And made Verona's ancient citizens</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.86>Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.87>To wield old partisans, in hands as old,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.88>Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.89>If ever you disturb our streets again,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.90>Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.91>For this time, all the rest depart away:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.92>You Capulet; shall go along with me:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.93>And, Montague, come you this afternoon,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.94>To know our further pleasure in this case,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.95>To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.96>Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.97>Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.98>Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.99>Here were the servants of your adversary,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.100>And yours, close fighting ere I did approach:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.101>I drew to part them: in the instant came</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.102>The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.103>Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.104>He swung about his head and cut the winds,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.105>Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.106>While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.107>Came more and more and fought on part and part,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.108>Till the prince came, who parted either part.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>LADY MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.109>O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.110>Right glad I am he was not at this fray.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.111>Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.112>Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.113>A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.114>Where, underneath the grove of sycamore</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.115>That westward rooteth from the city's side,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.116>So early walking did I see your son:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.117>Towards him I made, but he was ware of me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.118>And stole into the covert of the wood:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.119>I, measuring his affections by my own,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.120>That most are busied when they're most alone,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.121>Pursued my humour not pursuing his,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.122>And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.123>Many a morning hath he there been seen,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.124>With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.125>Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.126>But all so soon as the all-cheering sun</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.127>Should in the furthest east begin to draw</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.128>The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.129>Away from the light steals home my heavy son,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.130>And private in his chamber pens himself,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.131>Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.132>And makes himself an artificial night:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.133>Black and portentous must this humour prove,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.134>Unless good counsel may the cause remove.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech57><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.135>My noble uncle, do you know the cause?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech58><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.136>I neither know it nor can learn of him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech59><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.137>Have you importuned him by any means?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech60><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.138>Both by myself and many other friends:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.139>But he, his own affections' counsellor,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.140>Is to himself--I will not say how true--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.141>But to himself so secret and so close,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.142>So far from sounding and discovery,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.143>As is the bud bit with an envious worm,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.144>Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.145>Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.146>Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.147>We would as willingly give cure as know.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech61><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.148>See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.149>I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech62><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.150>I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.151>To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech63><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.152>Good-morrow, cousin.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech64><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.153>Is the day so young?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech65><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.154>But new struck nine.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech66><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.155>Ay me! sad hours seem long.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.156>Was that my father that went hence so fast?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech67><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.157>It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech68><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.158>Not having that, which, having, makes them short.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech69><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.159>In love?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech70><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.160>Out--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech71><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.161>Of love?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech72><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.162>Out of her favour, where I am in love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech73><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.163>Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.164>Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech74><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.165>Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.166>Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.167>Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.168>Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.169>Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.170>Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.171>O any thing, of nothing first create!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.172>O heavy lightness! serious vanity!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.173>Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.174>Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.175>sick health!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.176>Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.177>This love feel I, that feel no love in this.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.178>Dost thou not laugh?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech75><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.179>No, coz, I rather weep.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech76><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.180>Good heart, at what?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech77><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.181>At thy good heart's oppression.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech78><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.182>Why, such is love's transgression.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.183>Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.184>Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.185>With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.186>Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.187>Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.188>Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.189>Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.190>What is it else? a madness most discreet,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.191>A choking gall and a preserving sweet.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.192>Farewell, my coz.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech79><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.193>                  Soft! I will go along;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.194>An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech80><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.195>Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.196>This is not Romeo, he's some other where.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech81><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.197>Tell me in sadness, who is that you love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech82><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.198>What, shall I groan and tell thee?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech83><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.199>Groan! why, no.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.200>But sadly tell me who.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech84><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.201>Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.202>Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.203>In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech85><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.204>I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech86><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.205>A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech87><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.206>A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech88><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.207>Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.208>With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.209>And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.210>From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.211>She will not stay the siege of loving terms,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.212>Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.213>Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.214>O, she is rich in beauty, only poor,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.215>That when she dies with beauty dies her store.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech89><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.216>Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech90><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.217>She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.218>For beauty starved with her severity</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.219>Cuts beauty off from all posterity.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.220>She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.221>To merit bliss by making me despair:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.222>She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.223>Do I live dead that live to tell it now.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech91><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.224>Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech92><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.225>O, teach me how I should forget to think.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech93><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.226>By giving liberty unto thine eyes;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.227>Examine other beauties.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech94><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.228>'Tis the way</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.229>To call hers exquisite, in question more:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.230>These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.231>Being black put us in mind they hide the fair;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.232>He that is strucken blind cannot forget</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.233>The precious treasure of his eyesight lost:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.234>Show me a mistress that is passing fair,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.235>What doth her beauty serve, but as a note</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.236>Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.237>Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech95><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.238>I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.1>But Montague is bound as well as I,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.2>In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.3>For men so old as we to keep the peace.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.4>Of honourable reckoning are you both;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.5>And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.6>But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.7>But saying o'er what I have said before:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.8>My child is yet a stranger in the world;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.9>She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.10>Let two more summers wither in their pride,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.11>Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.12>Younger than she are happy mothers made.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.13>And too soon marr'd are those so early made.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.14>The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.15>She is the hopeful lady of my earth:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.16>But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.17>My will to her consent is but a part;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.18>An she agree, within her scope of choice</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.19>Lies my consent and fair according voice.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.20>This night I hold an old accustom'd feast,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.21>Whereto I have invited many a guest,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.22>Such as I love; and you, among the store,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.23>One more, most welcome, makes my number more.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.24>At my poor house look to behold this night</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.25>Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.26>Such comfort as do lusty young men feel</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.27>When well-apparell'd April on the heel</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.28>Of limping winter treads, even such delight</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.29>Among fresh female buds shall you this night</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.30>Inherit at my house; hear all, all see,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.31>And like her most whose merit most shall be:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.32>Which on more view, of many mine being one</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.33>May stand in number, though in reckoning none,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.34>Come, go with me.</A><br>
<p><i>To Servant, giving a paper</i></p>
<A NAME=1.2.35>Go, sirrah, trudge about</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.36>Through fair Verona; find those persons out</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.37>Whose names are written there, and to them say,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.38>My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt CAPULET and PARIS</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.39>Find them out whose names are written here! It is</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.40>written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.41>yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.42>his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.43>sent to find those persons whose names are here</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.44>writ, and can never find what names the writing</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.45>person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.46>Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.47>One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.48>Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.49>One desperate grief cures with another's languish:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.50>Take thou some new infection to thy eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.51>And the rank poison of the old will die.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.52>Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.53>For what, I pray thee?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.54>For your broken shin.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.55>Why, Romeo, art thou mad?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.56>Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.57>Shut up in prison, kept without my food,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.58>Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.59>God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.60>Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.61>Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.62>pray, can you read any thing you see?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.63>Ay, if I know the letters and the language.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.64>Ye say honestly: rest you merry!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.65>Stay, fellow; I can read.</A><br>
<p><i>Reads</i></p>
<A NAME=1.2.66>'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.67>County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.68>widow of Vitravio; Signior Placentio and his lovely</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.69>nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.70>uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair niece</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.71>Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.72>Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.73>assembly: whither should they come?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.74>Up.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.75>Whither?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.76>To supper; to our house.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.77>Whose house?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.78>My master's.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.79>Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.80>Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.81>great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.82>of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.83>Rest you merry!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.84>At this same ancient feast of Capulet's</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.85>Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.86>With all the admired beauties of Verona:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.87>Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.88>Compare her face with some that I shall show,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.89>And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.90>When the devout religion of mine eye</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.91>Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.92>And these, who often drown'd could never die,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.93>Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.94>One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.95>Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.96>Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.97>Herself poised with herself in either eye:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.98>But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.99>Your lady's love against some other maid</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.100>That I will show you shining at this feast,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.101>And she shall scant show well that now shows best.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.102>I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.103>But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.1>Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.2>Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.3>I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.4>God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.5>How now! who calls?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.6>Your mother.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.7>Madam, I am here.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.8>What is your will?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.9>This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.10>We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.11>I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.12>Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.13>Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.14>She's not fourteen.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.15>I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.16>And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.17>She is not fourteen. How long is it now</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.18>To Lammas-tide?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.19>                  A fortnight and odd days.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.20>Even or odd, of all days in the year,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.21>Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.22>Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.23>Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.24>She was too good for me: but, as I said,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.25>On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.26>That shall she, marry; I remember it well.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.27>'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.28>And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.29>Of all the days of the year, upon that day:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.30>For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.31>Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.32>My lord and you were then at Mantua:--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.33>Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.34>When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.35>Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.36>To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.37>Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.38>To bid me trudge:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.39>And since that time it is eleven years;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.40>For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.41>She could have run and waddled all about;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.42>For even the day before, she broke her brow:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.43>And then my husband--God be with his soul!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.44>A' was a merry man--took up the child:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.45>'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.46>Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.47>Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.48>The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.49>To see, now, how a jest shall come about!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.50>I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.51>I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.52>And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.53>Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.54>Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.55>To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.56>And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.57>A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.58>A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.59>'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.60>Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.61>Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.62>And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.63>Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.64>Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.65>An I might live to see thee married once,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.66>I have my wish.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.67>Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.68>I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.69>How stands your disposition to be married?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.70>It is an honour that I dream not of.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.71>An honour! were not I thine only nurse,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.72>I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.73>Well, think of marriage now; younger than you,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.74>Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.75>Are made already mothers: by my count,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.76>I was your mother much upon these years</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.77>That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.78>The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.79>A man, young lady! lady, such a man</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.80>As all the world--why, he's a man of wax.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.81>Verona's summer hath not such a flower.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.82>Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.83>What say you? can you love the gentleman?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.84>This night you shall behold him at our feast;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.85>Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.86>And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.87>Examine every married lineament,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.88>And see how one another lends content</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.89>And what obscured in this fair volume lies</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.90>Find written in the margent of his eyes.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.91>This precious book of love, this unbound lover,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.92>To beautify him, only lacks a cover:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.93>The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.94>For fair without the fair within to hide:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.95>That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.96>That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.97>So shall you share all that he doth possess,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.98>By having him, making yourself no less.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.99>No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.100>Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.101>I'll look to like, if looking liking move:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.102>But no more deep will I endart mine eye</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.103>Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.104>Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.105>called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.106>the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.107>hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.108>We follow thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=1.3.109>Juliet, the county stays.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.110>Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.1>What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.2>Or shall we on without a apology?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.3>The date is out of such prolixity:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.4>We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.5>Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.6>Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.7>Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.8>After the prompter, for our entrance:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.9>But let them measure us by what they will;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.10>We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.11>Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.12>Being but heavy, I will bear the light.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.13>Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.14>Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.15>With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.16>So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.17>You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.18>And soar with them above a common bound.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.19>I am too sore enpierced with his shaft</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.20>To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.21>I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.22>Under love's heavy burden do I sink.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.23>And, to sink in it, should you burden love;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.24>Too great oppression for a tender thing.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.25>Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.26>Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.27>If love be rough with you, be rough with love;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.28>Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.29>Give me a case to put my visage in:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.30>A visor for a visor! what care I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.31>What curious eye doth quote deformities?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.32>Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.33>Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.34>But every man betake him to his legs.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.35>A torch for me: let wantons light of heart</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.36>Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.37>For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.38>I'll be a candle-holder, and look on.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.39>The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.40>Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.41>If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.42>Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.43>Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.44>Nay, that's not so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.45>I mean, sir, in delay</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.46>We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.47>Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.48>Five times in that ere once in our five wits.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.49>And we mean well in going to this mask;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.50>But 'tis no wit to go.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.51>Why, may one ask?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.52>I dream'd a dream to-night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.53>And so did I.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.54>Well, what was yours?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.55>That dreamers often lie.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.56>In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.57>O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.58>She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.59>In shape no bigger than an agate-stone</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.60>On the fore-finger of an alderman,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.61>Drawn with a team of little atomies</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.62>Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.63>Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.64>The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.65>The traces of the smallest spider's web,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.66>The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.67>Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.68>Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.69>Not so big as a round little worm</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.70>Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.71>Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.72>Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.73>Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.74>And in this state she gallops night by night</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.75>Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.76>O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.77>O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.78>O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.79>Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.80>Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.81>Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.82>And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.83>And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.84>Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.85>Then dreams, he of another benefice:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.86>Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.87>And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.88>Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.89>Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.90>Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.91>And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.92>And sleeps again. This is that very Mab</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.93>That plats the manes of horses in the night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.94>And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.95>Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.96>This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.97>That presses them and learns them first to bear,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.98>Making them women of good carriage:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.99>This is she--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.100>                  Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.101>Thou talk'st of nothing.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.102>True, I talk of dreams,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.103>Which are the children of an idle brain,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.104>Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.105>Which is as thin of substance as the air</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.106>And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.107>Even now the frozen bosom of the north,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.108>And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.109>Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.110>This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.111>Supper is done, and we shall come too late.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.112>I fear, too early: for my mind misgives</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.113>Some consequence yet hanging in the stars</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.114>Shall bitterly begin his fearful date</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.115>With this night's revels and expire the term</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.116>Of a despised life closed in my breast</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.117>By some vile forfeit of untimely death.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.118>But He, that hath the steerage of my course,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.119>Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.120>Strike, drum.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen with napkins</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.1>Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.2>shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.3>When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.4>hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.5>Away with the joint-stools, remove the</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.6>court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.7>me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.8>the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.9>Antony, and Potpan!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.10>Ay, boy, ready.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.11>You are looked for and called for, asked for and</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.12>sought for, in the great chamber.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.13>We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.14>brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house, meeting the Guests and Maskers</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.15>Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.16>Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.17>Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.18>Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.19>She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.20>Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.21>That I have worn a visor and could tell</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.22>A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.23>Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.24>You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.25>A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.</A><br>
<p><i>Music plays, and they dance</i></p>
<A NAME=1.5.26>More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.27>And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.28>Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.29>Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.30>For you and I are past our dancing days:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.31>How long is't now since last yourself and I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.32>Were in a mask?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>Second Capulet</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.33>                  By'r lady, thirty years.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.34>What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.35>'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.36>Come pentecost as quickly as it will,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.37>Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Capulet</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.38>'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.39>His son is thirty.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.40>                  Will you tell me that?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.41>His son was but a ward two years ago.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.42>[To a Servingman]  What lady is that, which doth</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.43>enrich the hand</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.44>Of yonder knight?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.45>I know not, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.46>O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.47>It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.48>Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.49>Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.50>So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.51>As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.52>The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.53>And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.54>Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.55>For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.56>This, by his voice, should be a Montague.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.57>Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.58>Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.59>To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.60>Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.61>To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.62>Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.63>Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.64>A villain that is hither come in spite,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.65>To scorn at our solemnity this night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.66>Young Romeo is it?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.67>'Tis he, that villain Romeo.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.68>Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.69>He bears him like a portly gentleman;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.70>And, to say truth, Verona brags of him</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.71>To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.72>I would not for the wealth of all the town</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.73>Here in my house do him disparagement:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.74>Therefore be patient, take no note of him:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.75>It is my will, the which if thou respect,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.76>Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.77>And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.78>It fits, when such a villain is a guest:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.79>I'll not endure him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.80>He shall be endured:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.81>What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.82>Am I the master here, or you? go to.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.83>You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.84>You'll make a mutiny among my guests!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.85>You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.86>Why, uncle, 'tis a shame.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.87>Go to, go to;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.88>You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.89>This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.90>You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.91>Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.92>Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.93>I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.94>Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.95>Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.96>I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.97>Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.98>[To JULIET]  If I profane with my unworthiest hand</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.99>This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.100>My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.101>To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.102>Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.103>Which mannerly devotion shows in this;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.104>For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.105>And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.106>Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.107>Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.108>O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.109>They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.110>Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.111>Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.112>Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.113>Then have my lips the sin that they have took.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.114>Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.115>Give me my sin again.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.116>You kiss by the book.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.117>Madam, your mother craves a word with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.118>What is her mother?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.119>Marry, bachelor,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.120>Her mother is the lady of the house,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.121>And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.122>I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.123>I tell you, he that can lay hold of her</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.124>Shall have the chinks.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.125>Is she a Capulet?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.126>O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.127>Away, begone; the sport is at the best.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.128>Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.129>Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.130>We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.131>Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.132>I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.133>More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.134>Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.135>I'll to my rest.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.136>Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.137>The son and heir of old Tiberio.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.138>What's he that now is going out of door?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.139>Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.140>What's he that follows there, that would not dance?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.141>I know not.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.142>Go ask his name: if he be married.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.143>My grave is like to be my wedding bed.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.144>His name is Romeo, and a Montague;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.145>The only son of your great enemy.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.146>My only love sprung from my only hate!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.147>Too early seen unknown, and known too late!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.148>Prodigious birth of love it is to me,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.149>That I must love a loathed enemy.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.150>What's this? what's this?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.151>A rhyme I learn'd even now</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.152>Of one I danced withal.</A><br>
<p><i>One calls within 'Juliet.'</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.153>Anon, anon!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.154>Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT II</h3>
<h3>PROLOGUE</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter Chorus</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>Chorus</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.0.1>Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.2>And young affection gapes to be his heir;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.3>That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.4>With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.5>Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.6>Alike betwitched by the charm of looks,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.7>But to his foe supposed he must complain,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.8>And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.9>Being held a foe, he may not have access</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.10>To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.11>And she as much in love, her means much less</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.12>To meet her new-beloved any where:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.13>But passion lends them power, time means, to meet</A><br>
<A NAME=2.0.14>Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE I. A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ROMEO</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.1>Can I go forward when my heart is here?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.2>Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.</A><br>
<p><i>He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it</i></p>
<p><i>Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.3>Romeo! my cousin Romeo!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.4>He is wise;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.5>And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.6>He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.7>Call, good Mercutio.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.8>Nay, I'll conjure too.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.9>Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.10>Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.11>Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.12>Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.13>Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.14>One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.15>Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.16>When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.17>He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.18>The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.19>I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.20>By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.21>By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.22>And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.23>That in thy likeness thou appear to us!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.24>And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.25>This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.26>To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.27>Of some strange nature, letting it there stand</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.28>Till she had laid it and conjured it down;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.29>That were some spite: my invocation</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.30>Is fair and honest, and in his mistres s' name</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.31>I conjure only but to raise up him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.32>Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.33>To be consorted with the humorous night:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.34>Blind is his love and best befits the dark.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.35>If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.36>Now will he sit under a medlar tree,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.37>And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.38>As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.39>Romeo, that she were, O, that she were</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.40>An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.41>Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.42>This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.43>Come, shall we go?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.44>                  Go, then; for 'tis in vain</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.45>To seek him here that means not to be found.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ROMEO</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.1>He jests at scars that never felt a wound.</A><br>
<p><i>JULIET appears above at a window</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.2>But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.3>It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.4>Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.5>Who is already sick and pale with grief,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.6>That thou her maid art far more fair than she:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.7>Be not her maid, since she is envious;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.8>Her vestal livery is but sick and green</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.9>And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.10>It is my lady, O, it is my love!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.11>O, that she knew she were!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.12>She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.13>Her eye discourses; I will answer it.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.14>I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.15>Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.16>Having some business, do entreat her eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.17>To twinkle in their spheres till they return.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.18>What if her eyes were there, they in her head?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.19>The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.20>As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.21>Would through the airy region stream so bright</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.22>That birds would sing and think it were not night.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.23>See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.24>O, that I were a glove upon that hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.25>That I might touch that cheek!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.26>Ay me!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.27>She speaks:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.28>O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.29>As glorious to this night, being o'er my head</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.30>As is a winged messenger of heaven</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.31>Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.32>Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.33>When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.34>And sails upon the bosom of the air.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.35>O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.36>Deny thy father and refuse thy name;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.37>Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.38>And I'll no longer be a Capulet.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.39>[Aside]  Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.40>'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.41>Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.42>What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.43>Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.44>Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.45>What's in a name? that which we call a rose</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.46>By any other name would smell as sweet;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.47>So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.48>Retain that dear perfection which he owes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.49>Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.50>And for that name which is no part of thee</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.51>Take all myself.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.52>                  I take thee at thy word:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.53>Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.54>Henceforth I never will be Romeo.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.55>What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.56>So stumblest on my counsel?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.57>By a name</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.58>I know not how to tell thee who I am:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.59>My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.60>Because it is an enemy to thee;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.61>Had I it written, I would tear the word.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.62>My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.63>Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.64>Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.65>Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.66>How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.67>The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.68>And the place death, considering who thou art,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.69>If any of my kinsmen find thee here.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.70>With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.71>For stony limits cannot hold love out,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.72>And what love can do that dares love attempt;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.73>Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.74>If they do see thee, they will murder thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.75>Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.76>Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.77>And I am proof against their enmity.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.78>I would not for the world they saw thee here.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.79>I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.80>And but thou love me, let them find me here:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.81>My life were better ended by their hate,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.82>Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.83>By whose direction found'st thou out this place?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.84>By love, who first did prompt me to inquire;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.85>He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.86>I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.87>As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.88>I would adventure for such merchandise.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.89>Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.90>Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.91>For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.92>Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.93>What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.94>Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.95>And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.96>Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.97>Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.98>If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.99>Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.100>I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.101>So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.102>In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.103>And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.104>But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.105>Than those that have more cunning to be strange.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.106>I should have been more strange, I must confess,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.107>But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.108>My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.109>And not impute this yielding to light love,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.110>Which the dark night hath so discovered.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.111>Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.112>That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.113>O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.114>That monthly changes in her circled orb,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.115>Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.116>What shall I swear by?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.117>Do not swear at all;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.118>Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.119>Which is the god of my idolatry,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.120>And I'll believe thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.121>If my heart's dear love--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.122>Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.123>I have no joy of this contract to-night:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.124>It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.125>Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.126>Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.127>This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.128>May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.129>Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.130>Come to thy heart as that within my breast!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.131>O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.132>What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.133>The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.134>I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.135>And yet I would it were to give again.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.136>Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.137>But to be frank, and give it thee again.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.138>And yet I wish but for the thing I have:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.139>My bounty is as boundless as the sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.140>My love as deep; the more I give to thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.141>The more I have, for both are infinite.</A><br>
<p><i>Nurse calls within</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.142>I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.143>Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.144>Stay but a little, I will come again.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit, above</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.145>O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.146>Being in night, all this is but a dream,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.147>Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter JULIET, above</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.148>Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.149>If that thy bent of love be honourable,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.150>Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.151>By one that I'll procure to come to thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.152>Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.153>And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.154>And follow thee my lord throughout the world.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.155>[Within]  Madam!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.156>I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.157>I do beseech thee--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.158>[Within]  Madam!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.159>By and by, I come:--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.160>To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.161>To-morrow will I send.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.162>So thrive my soul--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.163>A thousand times good night!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit, above</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.164>A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.165>Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.166>their books,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.167>But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.</A><br>
<p><i>Retiring</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter JULIET, above</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.168>Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.169>To lure this tassel-gentle back again!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.170>Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.171>Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.172>And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.173>With repetition of my Romeo's name.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.174>It is my soul that calls upon my name:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.175>How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.176>Like softest music to attending ears!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.177>Romeo!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.178>     My dear?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.179>                  At what o'clock to-morrow</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.180>Shall I send to thee?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.181>At the hour of nine.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.182>I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.183>I have forgot why I did call thee back.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.184>Let me stand here till thou remember it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.185>I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.186>Remembering how I love thy company.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.187>And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.188>Forgetting any other home but this.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.189>'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.190>And yet no further than a wanton's bird;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.191>Who lets it hop a little from her hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.192>Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.193>And with a silk thread plucks it back again,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.194>So loving-jealous of his liberty.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.195>I would I were thy bird.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.196>Sweet, so would I:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.197>Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.198>Good night, good night! parting is such</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.199>sweet sorrow,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.200>That I shall say good night till it be morrow.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit above</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.201>Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.202>Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.203>Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.204>His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.1>The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.2>Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.3>And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.4>From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.5>Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.6>The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.7>I must up-fill this osier cage of ours</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.8>With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.9>The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.10>What is her burying grave that is her womb,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.11>And from her womb children of divers kind</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.12>We sucking on her natural bosom find,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.13>Many for many virtues excellent,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.14>None but for some and yet all different.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.15>O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.16>In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.17>For nought so vile that on the earth doth live</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.18>But to the earth some special good doth give,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.19>Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.20>Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.21>Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.22>And vice sometimes by action dignified.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.23>Within the infant rind of this small flower</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.24>Poison hath residence and medicine power:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.25>For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.26>Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.27>Two such opposed kings encamp them still</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.28>In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.29>And where the worser is predominant,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.30>Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.31>Good morrow, father.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.32>Benedicite!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.33>What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.34>Young son, it argues a distemper'd head</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.35>So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.36>Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.37>And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.38>But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.39>Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.40>Therefore thy earliness doth me assure</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.41>Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.42>Or if not so, then here I hit it right,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.43>Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.44>That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.45>God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.46>With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.47>I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.48>That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.49>I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.50>I have been feasting with mine enemy,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.51>Where on a sudden one hath wounded me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.52>That's by me wounded: both our remedies</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.53>Within thy help and holy physic lies:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.54>I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.55>My intercession likewise steads my foe.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.56>Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.57>Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.58>Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.59>On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.60>As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.61>And all combined, save what thou must combine</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.62>By holy marriage: when and where and how</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.63>We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.64>I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.65>That thou consent to marry us to-day.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.66>Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.67>Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.68>So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.69>Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.70>Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.71>Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.72>How much salt water thrown away in waste,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.73>To season love, that of it doth not taste!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.74>The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.75>Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.76>Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.77>Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.78>If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.79>Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.80>And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.81>Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.82>Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.83>For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.84>And bad'st me bury love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.85>Not in a grave,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.86>To lay one in, another out to have.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.87>I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.88>Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.89>The other did not so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.90>O, she knew well</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.91>Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.92>But come, young waverer, come, go with me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.93>In one respect I'll thy assistant be;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.94>For this alliance may so happy prove,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.95>To turn your households' rancour to pure love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.96>O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.97>Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.1>Where the devil should this Romeo be?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.2>Came he not home to-night?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.3>Not to his father's; I spoke with his man.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.4>Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.5>Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.6>Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.7>Hath sent a letter to his father's house.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.8>A challenge, on my life.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.9>Romeo will answer it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.10>Any man that can write may answer a letter.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.11>Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.12>dares, being dared.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.13>Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.14>white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.15>love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.16>blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.17>encounter Tybalt?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.18>Why, what is Tybalt?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.19>More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.20>the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.21>you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.22>proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.23>the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.24>button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.25>very first house, of the first and second cause:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.26>ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.27>hai!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.28>The what?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.29>The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.30>fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.31>a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.32>whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.33>grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.34>these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.35>perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.36>that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.37>bones, their bones!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.38>Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.39>Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.40>how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.41>that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.42>kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.43>be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.44>Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.45>eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.46>Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.47>to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.48>fairly last night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.49>Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.50>The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.51>Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.52>such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.53>That's as much as to say, such a case as yours</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.54>constrains a man to bow in the hams.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.55>Meaning, to court'sy.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.56>Thou hast most kindly hit it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.57>A most courteous exposition.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.58>Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.59>Pink for flower.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.60>Right.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.61>Why, then is my pump well flowered.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.62>Well said: follow me this jest now till thou hast</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.63>worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.64>is worn, the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.65>O single-soled jest, solely singular for the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.66>singleness.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.67>Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.68>Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a match.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.69>Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.70>done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.71>thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.72>was I with you there for the goose?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.73>Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.74>not there for the goose.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.75>I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.76>Nay, good goose, bite not.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.77>Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.78>sharp sauce.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.79>And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.80>O here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.81>inch narrow to an ell broad!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.82>I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.83>to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.84>Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.85>now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.86>thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.87>for this drivelling love is like a great natural,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.88>that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.89>Stop there, stop there.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.90>Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.91>Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.92>O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.93>for I was come to the whole depth of my tale; and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.94>meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.95>Here's goodly gear!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Nurse and PETER</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.96>A sail, a sail!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.97>Two, two; a shirt and a smock.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.98>Peter!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.99>Anon!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.100>My fan, Peter.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.101>Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.102>fairer face.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.103>God ye good morrow, gentlemen.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.104>God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.105>Is it good den?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.106>'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.107>dial is now upon the prick of noon.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.108>Out upon you! what a man are you!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.109>One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.110>mar.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech57><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.111>By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.112>quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.113>may find the young Romeo?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech58><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.114>I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.115>you have found him than he was when you sought him:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.116>I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech59><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.117>You say well.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech60><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.118>Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.119>wisely, wisely.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech61><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.120>if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.121>you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech62><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.122>She will indite him to some supper.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech63><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.123>A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! so ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech64><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.124>What hast thou found?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech65><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.125>No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.126>that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.</A><br>
<p><i>Sings</i></p>
<A NAME=2.4.127>An old hare hoar,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.128>And an old hare hoar,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.129>Is very good meat in lent</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.130>But a hare that is hoar</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.131>Is too much for a score,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.132>When it hoars ere it be spent.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.133>Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.134>to dinner, thither.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech66><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.135>I will follow you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech67><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.136>Farewell, ancient lady; farewell,</A><br>
<p><i>Singing</i></p>
<A NAME=2.4.137>'lady, lady, lady.'</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech68><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.138>Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.139>merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech69><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.140>A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.141>and will speak more in a minute than he will stand</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.142>to in a month.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech70><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.143>An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.144>down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.145>Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.146>Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.147>none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.148>too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech71><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.149>I saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, my weapon</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.150>should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.151>draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.152>good quarrel, and the law on my side.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech72><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.153>Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.154>me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.155>and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.156>out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.157>but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.158>a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.159>kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.160>is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.161>with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.162>to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech73><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.163>Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.164>protest unto thee--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech74><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.165>Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.166>Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech75><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.167>What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech76><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.168>I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.169>I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech77><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.170>Bid her devise</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.171>Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.172>And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.173>Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech78><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.174>No truly sir; not a penny.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech79><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.175>Go to; I say you shall.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech80><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.176>This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech81><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.177>And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.178>Within this hour my man shall be with thee</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.179>And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.180>Which to the high top-gallant of my joy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.181>Must be my convoy in the secret night.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.182>Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.183>Farewell; commend me to thy mistress.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech82><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.184>Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech83><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.185>What say'st thou, my dear nurse?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech84><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.186>Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.187>Two may keep counsel, putting one away?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech85><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.188>I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech86><b>NURSE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.189>Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.190>Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.191>is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.192>lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.193>see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.194>sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.195>man; but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.196>as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.197>rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech87><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.198>Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech88><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.199>Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.200>the--No; I know it begins with some other</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.201>letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.202>it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.203>to hear it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech89><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.204>Commend me to thy lady.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech90><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.205>Ay, a thousand times.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Romeo</i></p>
<A NAME=2.4.206>Peter!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech91><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.207>Anon!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech92><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.208>Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter JULIET</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.1>The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.2>In half an hour she promised to return.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.3>Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.4>O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.5>Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.6>Driving back shadows over louring hills:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.7>Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.8>And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.9>Now is the sun upon the highmost hill</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.10>Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.11>Is three long hours, yet she is not come.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.12>Had she affections and warm youthful blood,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.13>She would be as swift in motion as a ball;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.14>My words would bandy her to my sweet love,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.15>And his to me:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.16>But old folks, many feign as they were dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.17>Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.18>O God, she comes!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Nurse and PETER</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.19>O honey nurse, what news?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.20>Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.21>Peter, stay at the gate.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit PETER</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.22>Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.23>Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.24>If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.25>By playing it to me with so sour a face.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.26>I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.27>Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.28>I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.29>Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.30>Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.31>Do you not see that I am out of breath?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.32>How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.33>To say to me that thou art out of breath?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.34>The excuse that thou dost make in this delay</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.35>Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.36>Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.37>Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.38>Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.39>Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.40>how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.41>face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.42>all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.43>though they be not to be talked on, yet they are</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.44>past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.45>but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.46>ways, wench; serve God. What, have you dined at home?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.47>No, no: but all this did I know before.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.48>What says he of our marriage? what of that?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.49>Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.50>It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.51>My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.52>Beshrew your heart for sending me about,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.53>To catch my death with jaunting up and down!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.54>I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.55>Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.56>Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.57>courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.58>warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.59>Where is my mother! why, she is within;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.60>Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.61>'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.62>Where is your mother?'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.63>O God's lady dear!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.64>Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.65>Is this the poultice for my aching bones?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.66>Henceforward do your messages yourself.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.67>Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.68>Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.69>I have.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.70>Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.71>There stays a husband to make you a wife:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.72>Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.73>They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.74>Hie you to church; I must another way,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.75>To fetch a ladder, by the which your love</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.76>Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.77>I am the drudge and toil in your delight,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.78>But you shall bear the burden soon at night.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.79>Go; I'll to dinner: hie you to the cell.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.80>Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.1>So smile the heavens upon this holy act,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.2>That after hours with sorrow chide us not!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.3>Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.4>It cannot countervail the exchange of joy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.5>That one short minute gives me in her sight:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.6>Do thou but close our hands with holy words,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.7>Then love-devouring death do what he dare;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.8>It is enough I may but call her mine.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.9>These violent delights have violent ends</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.10>And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.11>Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.12>Is loathsome in his own deliciousness</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.13>And in the taste confounds the appetite:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.14>Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.15>Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
<A NAME=2.6.16>Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.17>Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.18>A lover may bestride the gossamer</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.19>That idles in the wanton summer air,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.20>And yet not fall; so light is vanity.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.21>Good even to my ghostly confessor.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.22>Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.23>As much to him, else is his thanks too much.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.24>Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.25>Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.26>To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.27>This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.28>Unfold the imagined happiness that both</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.29>Receive in either by this dear encounter.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.30>Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.31>Brags of his substance, not of ornament:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.32>They are but beggars that can count their worth;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.33>But my true love is grown to such excess</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.34>I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.35>Come, come with me, and we will make short work;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.36>For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.37>Till holy church incorporate two in one.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT III</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. A public place.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.1>I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.2>The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.3>And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.4>For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.5>Thou art like one of those fellows that when he</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.6>enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.7>upon the table and says 'God send me no need of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.8>thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.9>it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.10>Am I like such a fellow?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.11>Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.12>any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.13>soon moody to be moved.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.14>And what to?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.15>Nay, an there were two such, we should have none</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.16>shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.17>thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.18>or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.19>wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.20>other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.21>eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.22>Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.23>meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.24>an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.25>man for coughing in the street, because he hath</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.26>wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.27>didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.28>his new doublet before Easter? with another, for</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.29>tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.30>wilt tutor me from quarrelling!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.31>An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.32>should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.33>The fee-simple! O simple!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.34>By my head, here come the Capulets.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.35>By my heel, I care not.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter TYBALT and others</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.36>Follow me close, for I will speak to them.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.37>Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.38>And but one word with one of us? couple it with</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.39>something; make it a word and a blow.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.40>You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.41>will give me occasion.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.42>Could you not take some occasion without giving?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.43>Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.44>Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? an</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.45>thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.46>discords: here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.47>make you dance. 'Zounds, consort!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.48>We talk here in the public haunt of men:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.49>Either withdraw unto some private place,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.50>And reason coldly of your grievances,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.51>Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.52>Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.53>I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.54>Well, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.55>But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.56>Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.57>Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.58>Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.59>No better term than this,--thou art a villain.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.60>Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.61>Doth much excuse the appertaining rage</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.62>To such a greeting: villain am I none;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.63>Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.64>Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.65>That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.66>I do protest, I never injured thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.67>But love thee better than thou canst devise,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.68>Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.69>And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.70>As dearly as my own,--be satisfied.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.71>O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.72>Alla stoccata carries it away.</A><br>
<p><i>Draws</i></p>
<A NAME=3.1.73>Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.74>What wouldst thou have with me?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.75>Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.76>lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.77>shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.78>eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.79>by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.80>ears ere it be out.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.81>I am for you.</A><br>
<p><i>Drawing</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.82>Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.83>Come, sir, your passado.</A><br>
<p><i>They fight</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.84>Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.85>Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.86>Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.87>Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.88>Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!</A><br>
<p><i>TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.89>I am hurt.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.90>A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.91>Is he gone, and hath nothing?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.92>What, art thou hurt?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.93>Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.94>Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Page</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.95>Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.96>No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.97>church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.98>me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.99>am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.100>both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.101>cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.102>rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.103>arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.104>was hurt under your arm.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.105>I thought all for the best.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>MERCUTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.106>Help me into some house, Benvolio,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.107>Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.108>They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.109>And soundly too: your houses!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.110>This gentleman, the prince's near ally,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.111>My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.112>In my behalf; my reputation stain'd</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.113>With Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hour</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.114>Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.115>Thy beauty hath made me effeminate</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.116>And in my temper soften'd valour's steel!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter BENVOLIO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.117>O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.118>That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.119>Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.120>This day's black fate on more days doth depend;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.121>This but begins the woe, others must end.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.122>Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.123>Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.124>Away to heaven, respective lenity,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.125>And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter TYBALT</i></p>
<A NAME=3.1.126>Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.127>That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.128>Is but a little way above our heads,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.129>Staying for thine to keep him company:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.130>Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>TYBALT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.131>Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.132>Shalt with him hence.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.133>This shall determine that.</A><br>
<p><i>They fight; TYBALT falls</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.134>Romeo, away, be gone!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.135>The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.136>Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.137>If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.138>O, I am fortune's fool!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.139>Why dost thou stay?</A><br>
<p><i>Exit ROMEO</i></p>
<p><i>Enter Citizens,  & c</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.140>Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.141>Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.142>There lies that Tybalt.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.143>Up, sir, go with me;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.144>I charge thee in the princes name, obey.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Prince, attended; MONTAGUE, CAPULET, their Wives, and others</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.145>Where are the vile beginners of this fray?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.146>O noble prince, I can discover all</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.147>The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.148>There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.149>That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.150>Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.151>O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.152>O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.153>For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.154>O cousin, cousin!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.155>Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>BENVOLIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.156>Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.157>Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.158>How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.159>Your high displeasure: all this uttered</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.160>With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.161>Could not take truce with the unruly spleen</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.162>Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.163>With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.164>Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.165>And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.166>Cold death aside, and with the other sends</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.167>It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.168>Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.169>'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.170>his tongue,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.171>His agile arm beats down their fatal points,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.172>And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.173>An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.174>Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.175>But by and by comes back to Romeo,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.176>Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.177>And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.178>Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.179>And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.180>This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech57><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.181>He is a kinsman to the Montague;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.182>Affection makes him false; he speaks not true:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.183>Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.184>And all those twenty could but kill one life.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.185>I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.186>Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech58><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.187>Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.188>Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech59><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.189>Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio's friend;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.190>His fault concludes but what the law should end,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.191>The life of Tybalt.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech60><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.192>And for that offence</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.193>Immediately we do exile him hence:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.194>I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.195>My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.196>But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.197>That you shall all repent the loss of mine:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.198>I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.199>Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.200>Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.201>Else, when he's found, that hour is his last.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.202>Bear hence this body and attend our will:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.203>Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter JULIET</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.1>Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.2>Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.3>As Phaethon would whip you to the west,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.4>And bring in cloudy night immediately.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.5>Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.6>That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.7>Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.8>Lovers can see to do their amorous rites</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.9>By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.10>It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.11>Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.12>And learn me how to lose a winning match,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.13>Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.14>Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.15>With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.16>Think true love acted simple modesty.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.17>Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.18>For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.19>Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.20>Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.21>Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.22>Take him and cut him out in little stars,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.23>And he will make the face of heaven so fine</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.24>That all the world will be in love with night</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.25>And pay no worship to the garish sun.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.26>O, I have bought the mansion of a love,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.27>But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.28>Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.29>As is the night before some festival</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.30>To an impatient child that hath new robes</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.31>And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.32>And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.33>But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Nurse, with cords</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.34>Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.35>That Romeo bid thee fetch?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.36>Ay, ay, the cords.</A><br>
<p><i>Throws them down</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.37>Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.38>Ah, well-a-day! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.39>We are undone, lady, we are undone!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.40>Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.41>Can heaven be so envious?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.42>Romeo can,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.43>Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.44>Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.45>What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.46>This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.47>Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.48>And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.49>Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.50>I am not I, if there be such an I;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.51>Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.52>If he be slain, say 'I'; or if not, no:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.53>Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.54>I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.55>God save the mark!--here on his manly breast:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.56>A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.57>Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.58>All in gore-blood; I swounded at the sight.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.59>O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.60>To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.61>Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.62>And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.63>O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.64>O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.65>That ever I should live to see thee dead!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.66>What storm is this that blows so contrary?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.67>Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.68>My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.69>Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.70>For who is living, if those two are gone?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.71>Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.72>Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.73>O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.74>It did, it did; alas the day, it did!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.75>O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.76>Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.77>Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.78>Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.79>Despised substance of divinest show!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.80>Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.81>A damned saint, an honourable villain!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.82>O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.83>When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.84>In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.85>Was ever book containing such vile matter</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.86>So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.87>In such a gorgeous palace!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.88>There's no trust,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.89>No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.90>All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.91>Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.92>These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.93>Shame come to Romeo!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.94>Blister'd be thy tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.95>For such a wish! he was not born to shame:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.96>Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.97>For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.98>Sole monarch of the universal earth.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.99>O, what a beast was I to chide at him!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.100>Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.101>Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.102>Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.103>When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.104>But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.105>That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.106>Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.107>Your tributary drops belong to woe,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.108>Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.109>My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.110>And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.111>All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.112>Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.113>That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.114>But, O, it presses to my memory,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.115>Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.116>'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banished;'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.117>That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.118>Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.119>Was woe enough, if it had ended there:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.120>Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.121>And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.122>Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.123>Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.124>Which modern lamentations might have moved?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.125>But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.126>'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.127>Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.128>All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.129>There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.130>In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.131>Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.132>Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.133>Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.134>Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.135>When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.136>Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.137>Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.138>He made you for a highway to my bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.139>But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.140>Come, cords, come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.141>And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.142>Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.143>To comfort you: I wot well where he is.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.144>Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.145>I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.146>O, find him! give this ring to my true knight,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.147>And bid him come to take his last farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.1>Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.2>Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.3>And thou art wedded to calamity.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ROMEO</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.4>Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.5>What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.6>That I yet know not?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.7>Too familiar</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.8>Is my dear son with such sour company:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.9>I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.10>What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.11>A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.12>Not body's death, but body's banishment.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.13>Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.14>For exile hath more terror in his look,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.15>Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.16>Hence from Verona art thou banished:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.17>Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.18>There is no world without Verona walls,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.19>But purgatory, torture, hell itself.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.20>Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.21>And world's exile is death: then banished,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.22>Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.23>Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.24>And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.25>O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.26>Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.27>Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.28>And turn'd that black word death to banishment:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.29>This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.30>'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.31>Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.32>And little mouse, every unworthy thing,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.33>Live here in heaven and may look on her;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.34>But Romeo may not: more validity,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.35>More honourable state, more courtship lives</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.36>In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.37>On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.38>And steal immortal blessing from her lips,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.39>Who even in pure and vestal modesty,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.40>Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.41>But Romeo may not; he is banished:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.42>Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.43>They are free men, but I am banished.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.44>And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.45>Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.46>No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.47>But 'banished' to kill me?--'banished'?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.48>O friar, the damned use that word in hell;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.49>Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.50>Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.51>A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.52>To mangle me with that word 'banished'?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.53>Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.54>O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.55>I'll give thee armour to keep off that word:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.56>Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.57>To comfort thee, though thou art banished.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.58>Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.59>Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.60>Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.61>It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.62>O, then I see that madmen have no ears.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.63>How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.64>Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.65>Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.66>Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.67>An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.68>Doting like me and like me banished,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.69>Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.70>And fall upon the ground, as I do now,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.71>Taking the measure of an unmade grave.</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.72>Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.73>Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.74>Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes.</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.75>Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.76>Thou wilt be taken. Stay awhile! Stand up;</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking</i></p>
<A NAME=3.3.77>Run to my study. By and by! God's will,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.78>What simpleness is this! I come, I come!</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking</i></p>
<A NAME=3.3.79>Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.80>[Within]  Let me come in, and you shall know</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.81>my errand;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.82>I come from Lady Juliet.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.83>Welcome, then.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Nurse</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.84>O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.85>Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.86>There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.87>O, he is even in my mistress' case,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.88>Just in her case! O woful sympathy!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.89>Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.90>Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.91>Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.92>For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.93>Why should you fall into so deep an O?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.94>Nurse!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.95>Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.96>Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.97>Doth she not think me an old murderer,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.98>Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.99>With blood removed but little from her own?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.100>Where is she? and how doth she? and what says</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.101>My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.102>O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.103>And now falls on her bed; and then starts up,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.104>And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.105>And then down falls again.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.106>As if that name,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.107>Shot from the deadly level of a gun,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.108>Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.109>Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.110>In what vile part of this anatomy</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.111>Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.112>The hateful mansion.</A><br>
<p><i>Drawing his sword</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.113>Hold thy desperate hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.114>Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.115>Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.116>The unreasonable fury of a beast:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.117>Unseemly woman in a seeming man!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.118>Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.119>Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.120>I thought thy disposition better temper'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.121>Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.122>And stay thy lady too that lives in thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.123>By doing damned hate upon thyself?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.124>Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.125>Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.126>In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.127>Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.128>Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.129>And usest none in that true use indeed</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.130>Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.131>Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.132>Digressing from the valour of a man;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.133>Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.134>Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.135>Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.136>Misshapen in the conduct of them both,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.137>Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.138>Is set afire by thine own ignorance,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.139>And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.140>What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.141>For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.142>There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.143>But thou slew'st Tybalt; there are thou happy too:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.144>The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.145>And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.146>A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.147>Happiness courts thee in her best array;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.148>But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.149>Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.150>Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.151>Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.152>Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.153>But look thou stay not till the watch be set,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.154>For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.155>Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.156>To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.157>Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.158>With twenty hundred thousand times more joy</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.159>Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.160>Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.161>And bid her hasten all the house to bed,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.162>Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.163>Romeo is coming.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.164>O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.165>To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.166>My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.167>Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.168>Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.169>Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.170>How well my comfort is revived by this!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.171>Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.172>Either be gone before the watch be set,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.173>Or by the break of day disguised from hence:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.174>Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.175>And he shall signify from time to time</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.176>Every good hap to you that chances here:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.177>Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.178>But that a joy past joy calls out on me,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.179>It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: Farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. A room in Capulet's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.1>Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.2>That we have had no time to move our daughter:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.3>Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.4>And so did I:--Well, we were born to die.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.5>'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.6>I promise you, but for your company,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.7>I would have been a-bed an hour ago.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.8>These times of woe afford no time to woo.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.9>Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.10>I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.11>To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.12>Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.13>Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.14>In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.15>Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.16>Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.17>And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.18>But, soft! what day is this?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.19>Monday, my lord,</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.20>Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.21>O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.22>She shall be married to this noble earl.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.23>Will you be ready? do you like this haste?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.24>We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.25>For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.26>It may be thought we held him carelessly,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.27>Being our kinsman, if we revel much:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.28>Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.29>And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.30>My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.31>Well get you gone: o' Thursday be it, then.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.32>Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.33>Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.34>Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.35>Afore me! it is so very very late,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.36>That we may call it early by and by.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.37>Good night.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the window</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.1>Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.2>It was the nightingale, and not the lark,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.3>That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.4>Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.5>Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.6>It was the lark, the herald of the morn,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.7>No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.8>Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.9>Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.10>Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.11>I must be gone and live, or stay and die.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.12>Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.13>It is some meteor that the sun exhales,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.14>To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.15>And light thee on thy way to Mantua:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.16>Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.17>Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.18>I am content, so thou wilt have it so.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.19>I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.20>'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.21>Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.22>The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.23>I have more care to stay than will to go:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.24>Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.25>How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.26>It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.27>It is the lark that sings so out of tune,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.28>Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.29>Some say the lark makes sweet division;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.30>This doth not so, for she divideth us:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.31>Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.32>O, now I would they had changed voices too!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.33>Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.34>Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.35>O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.36>More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Nurse, to the chamber</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.37>Madam!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.38>Nurse?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.39>Your lady mother is coming to your chamber:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.40>The day is broke; be wary, look about.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.41>Then, window, let day in, and let life out.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.42>Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.</A><br>
<p><i>He goeth down</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.43>Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.44>I must hear from thee every day in the hour,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.45>For in a minute there are many days:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.46>O, by this count I shall be much in years</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.47>Ere I again behold my Romeo!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.48>Farewell!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.49>I will omit no opportunity</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.50>That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.51>O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.52>I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.53>For sweet discourses in our time to come.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.54>O God, I have an ill-divining soul!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.55>Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.56>As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.57>Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.58>And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.59>Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.60>O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.61>If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.62>That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.63>For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.64>But send him back.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.65>[Within]         Ho, daughter! are you up?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.66>Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.67>Is she not down so late, or up so early?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.68>What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LADY CAPULET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.69>Why, how now, Juliet!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.70>Madam, I am not well.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.71>Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.72>What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.73>An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.74>Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.75>But much of grief shows still some want of wit.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.76>Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.77>So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.78>Which you weep for.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.79>Feeling so the loss,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.80>Cannot choose but ever weep the friend.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.81>Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.82>As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.83>What villain madam?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.84>That same villain, Romeo.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.85>[Aside]  Villain and he be many miles asunder.--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.86>God Pardon him! I do, with all my heart;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.87>And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.88>That is, because the traitor murderer lives.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.89>Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.90>Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.91>We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.92>Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.93>Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.94>Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.95>That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.96>And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.97>Indeed, I never shall be satisfied</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.98>With Romeo, till I behold him--dead--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.99>Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.100>Madam, if you could find out but a man</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.101>To bear a poison, I would temper it;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.102>That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.103>Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.104>To hear him named, and cannot come to him.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.105>To wreak the love I bore my cousin</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.106>Upon his body that slaughter'd him!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.107>Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.108>But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.109>And joy comes well in such a needy time:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.110>What are they, I beseech your ladyship?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.111>Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.112>One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.113>Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.114>That thou expect'st not nor I look'd not for.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.115>Madam, in happy time, what day is that?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.116>Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.117>The gallant, young and noble gentleman,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.118>The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.119>Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.120>Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.121>He shall not make me there a joyful bride.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.122>I wonder at this haste; that I must wed</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.123>Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.124>I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.125>I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.126>It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.127>Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.128>Here comes your father; tell him so yourself,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.129>And see how he will take it at your hands.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CAPULET and Nurse</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.130>When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.131>But for the sunset of my brother's son</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.132>It rains downright.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.133>How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.134>Evermore showering? In one little body</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.135>Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.136>For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.137>Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.138>Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.139>Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.140>Without a sudden calm, will overset</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.141>Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.142>Have you deliver'd to her our decree?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.143>Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.144>I would the fool were married to her grave!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.145>Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.146>How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.147>Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.148>Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.149>So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.150>Not proud, you have; but thankful, that you have:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.151>Proud can I never be of what I hate;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.152>But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.153>How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.154>'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.155>And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.156>Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.157>But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.158>To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.159>Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.160>Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.161>You tallow-face!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.162>                  Fie, fie! what, are you mad?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.163>Good father, I beseech you on my knees,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.164>Hear me with patience but to speak a word.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.165>Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.166>I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.167>Or never after look me in the face:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.168>Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.169>My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.170>That God had lent us but this only child;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.171>But now I see this one is one too much,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.172>And that we have a curse in having her:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.173>Out on her, hilding!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.174>God in heaven bless her!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.175>You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.176>And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.177>Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.178>I speak no treason.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.179>O, God ye god-den.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.180>May not one speak?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.181>                  Peace, you mumbling fool!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.182>Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.183>For here we need it not.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.184>You are too hot.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech57><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.185>God's bread! it makes me mad:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.186>Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.187>Alone, in company, still my care hath been</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.188>To have her match'd: and having now provided</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.189>A gentleman of noble parentage,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.190>Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.191>Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.192>Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.193>And then to have a wretched puling fool,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.194>A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.195>To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.196>I am too young; I pray you, pardon me.'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.197>But, as you will not wed, I'll pardon you:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.198>Graze where you will you shall not house with me:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.199>Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.200>Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.201>An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.202>And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.203>the streets,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.204>For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.205>Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.206>Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech58><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.207>Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.208>That sees into the bottom of my grief?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.209>O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.210>Delay this marriage for a month, a week;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.211>Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.212>In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech59><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.213>Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.214>Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech60><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.215>O God!--O nurse, how shall this be prevented?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.216>My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.217>How shall that faith return again to earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.218>Unless that husband send it me from heaven</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.219>By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.220>Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.221>Upon so soft a subject as myself!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.222>What say'st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.223>Some comfort, nurse.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech61><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.224>Faith, here it is.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.225>Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.226>That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.227>Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.228>Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.229>I think it best you married with the county.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.230>O, he's a lovely gentleman!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.231>Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.232>Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.233>As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.234>I think you are happy in this second match,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.235>For it excels your first: or if it did not,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.236>Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.237>As living here and you no use of him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech62><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.238>Speakest thou from thy heart?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech63><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.239>And from my soul too;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.240>Or else beshrew them both.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech64><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.241>Amen!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech65><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.242>What?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech66><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.243>Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.244>Go in: and tell my lady I am gone,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.245>Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.246>To make confession and to be absolved.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech67><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.247>Marry, I will; and this is wisely done.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech68><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.248>Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.249>Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.250>Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.251>Which she hath praised him with above compare</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.252>So many thousand times? Go, counsellor;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.253>Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.254>I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.255>If all else fail, myself have power to die.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT IV</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.1>On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.2>My father Capulet will have it so;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.3>And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.4>You say you do not know the lady's mind:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.5>Uneven is the course, I like it not.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.6>Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.7>And therefore have I little talk'd of love;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.8>For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.9>Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.10>That she doth give her sorrow so much sway,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.11>And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.12>To stop the inundation of her tears;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.13>Which, too much minded by herself alone,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.14>May be put from her by society:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.15>Now do you know the reason of this haste.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.16>[Aside]  I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.17>Look, sir, here comes the lady towards my cell.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.18>Happily met, my lady and my wife!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.19>That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.20>That may be must be, love, on Thursday next.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.21>What must be shall be.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.22>That's a certain text.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.23>Come you to make confession to this father?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.24>To answer that, I should confess to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.25>Do not deny to him that you love me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.26>I will confess to you that I love him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.27>So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.28>If I do so, it will be of more price,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.29>Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.30>Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.31>The tears have got small victory by that;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.32>For it was bad enough before their spite.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.33>Thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.34>That is no slander, sir, which is a truth;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.35>And what I spake, I spake it to my face.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.36>Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.37>It may be so, for it is not mine own.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.38>Are you at leisure, holy father, now;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.39>Or shall I come to you at evening mass?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.40>My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.41>My lord, we must entreat the time alone.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.42>God shield I should disturb devotion!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.43>Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.44>Till then, adieu; and keep this holy kiss.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.45>O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.46>Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.47>Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.48>It strains me past the compass of my wits:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.49>I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.50>On Thursday next be married to this county.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.51>Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.52>Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.53>If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.54>Do thou but call my resolution wise,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.55>And with this knife I'll help it presently.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.56>God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.57>And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.58>Shall be the label to another deed,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.59>Or my true heart with treacherous revolt</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.60>Turn to another, this shall slay them both:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.61>Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.62>Give me some present counsel, or, behold,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.63>'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.64>Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.65>Which the commission of thy years and art</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.66>Could to no issue of true honour bring.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.67>Be not so long to speak; I long to die,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.68>If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.69>Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.70>Which craves as desperate an execution.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.71>As that is desperate which we would prevent.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.72>If, rather than to marry County Paris,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.73>Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.74>Then is it likely thou wilt undertake</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.75>A thing like death to chide away this shame,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.76>That copest with death himself to scape from it:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.77>And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.78>O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.79>From off the battlements of yonder tower;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.80>Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.81>Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.82>Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.83>O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.84>With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.85>Or bid me go into a new-made grave</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.86>And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.87>Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.88>And I will do it without fear or doubt,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.89>To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.90>Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.91>To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.92>To-morrow night look that thou lie alone;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.93>Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.94>Take thou this vial, being then in bed,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.95>And this distilled liquor drink thou off;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.96>When presently through all thy veins shall run</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.97>A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.98>Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.99>No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.100>The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.101>To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.102>Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.103>Each part, deprived of supple government,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.104>Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.105>And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.106>Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.107>And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.108>Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.109>To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.110>Then, as the manner of our country is,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.111>In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.112>Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.113>Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.114>In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.115>Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.116>And hither shall he come: and he and I</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.117>Will watch thy waking, and that very night</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.118>Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.119>And this shall free thee from this present shame;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.120>If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.121>Abate thy valour in the acting it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.122>Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.123>Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.124>In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.125>To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.126>Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.127>Farewell, dear father!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Hall in Capulet's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CAPULET, LADY  CAPULET, Nurse, and two Servingmen</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.1>So many guests invite as here are writ.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit First Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.2>Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.3>You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.4>can lick their fingers.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.5>How canst thou try them so?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.6>Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.7>own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.8>fingers goes not with me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.9>Go, be gone.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Second Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.10>We shall be much unfurnished for this time.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.11>What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.12>Ay, forsooth.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.13>Well, he may chance to do some good on her:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.14>A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.15>See where she comes from shrift with merry look.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.16>How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.17>Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.18>Of disobedient opposition</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.19>To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.20>By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.21>And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.22>Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.23>Send for the county; go tell him of this:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.24>I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.25>I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.26>And gave him what becomed love I might,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.27>Not step o'er the bounds of modesty.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.28>Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.29>This is as't should be. Let me see the county;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.30>Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.31>Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.32>Our whole city is much bound to him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.33>Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.34>To help me sort such needful ornaments</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.35>As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.36>No, not till Thursday; there is time enough.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.37>Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt JULIET and Nurse</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>LADY  CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.38>We shall be short in our provision:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.39>'Tis now near night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.40>Tush, I will stir about,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.41>And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.42>Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.43>I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.44>I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.45>They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.46>To County Paris, to prepare him up</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.47>Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.48>Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Juliet's chamber.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter JULIET and Nurse</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.1>Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.2>I pray thee, leave me to my self to-night,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.3>For I have need of many orisons</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.4>To move the heavens to smile upon my state,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.5>Which, well thou know'st, is cross, and full of sin.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LADY CAPULET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.6>What, are you busy, ho? need you my help?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.7>No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.8>As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.9>So please you, let me now be left alone,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.10>And let the nurse this night sit up with you;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.11>For, I am sure, you have your hands full all,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.12>In this so sudden business.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.13>Good night:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.14>Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.15>Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.16>I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.17>That almost freezes up the heat of life:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.18>I'll call them back again to comfort me:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.19>Nurse! What should she do here?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.20>My dismal scene I needs must act alone.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.21>Come, vial.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.22>What if this mixture do not work at all?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.23>Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.24>No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.</A><br>
<p><i>Laying down her dagger</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.25>What if it be a poison, which the friar</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.26>Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.27>Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.28>Because he married me before to Romeo?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.29>I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.30>For he hath still been tried a holy man.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.31>How if, when I am laid into the tomb,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.32>I wake before the time that Romeo</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.33>Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.34>Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.35>To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.36>And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.37>Or, if I live, is it not very like,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.38>The horrible conceit of death and night,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.39>Together with the terror of the place,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.40>As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.41>Where, for these many hundred years, the bones</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.42>Of all my buried ancestors are packed:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.43>Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.44>Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.45>At some hours in the night spirits resort;--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.46>Alack, alack, is it not like that I,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.47>So early waking, what with loathsome smells,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.48>And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.49>That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.50>O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.51>Environed with all these hideous fears?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.52>And madly play with my forefather's joints?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.53>And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.54>And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.55>As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.56>O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.57>Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.58>Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.59>Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.</A><br>
<p><i>She falls upon her bed, within the curtains</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.1>Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.2>They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CAPULET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.3>Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.4>The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.5>Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.6>Spare not for the cost.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.7>Go, you cot-quean, go,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.8>Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.9>For this night's watching.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.10>No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.11>All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.12>Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.13>But I will watch you from such watching now.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.14>A jealous hood, a jealous hood!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets</i></p>
<A NAME=4.4.15>Now, fellow,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.16>What's there?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.17>Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.18>Make haste, make haste.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit First Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=4.4.19>Sirrah, fetch drier logs:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.20>Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.21>I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.22>And never trouble Peter for the matter.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.23>Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.24>Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.25>The county will be here with music straight,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.26>For so he said he would: I hear him near.</A><br>
<p><i>Music within</i></p>
<A NAME=4.4.27>Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Nurse</i></p>
<A NAME=4.4.28>Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.29>I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.30>Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.31>Make haste, I say.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Juliet's chamber.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter Nurse</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.1>Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.2>Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.3>Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.4>What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.5>Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.6>The County Paris hath set up his rest,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.7>That you shall rest but little. God forgive me,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.8>Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.9>I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.10>Ay, let the county take you in your bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.11>He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be?</A><br>
<p><i>Undraws the curtains</i></p>
<A NAME=4.5.12>What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.13>I must needs wake you; Lady! lady! lady!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.14>Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.15>O, well-a-day, that ever I was born!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.16>Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! my lady!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LADY CAPULET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.17>What noise is here?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.18>O lamentable day!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.19>What is the matter?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.20>Look, look! O heavy day!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.21>O me, O me! My child, my only life,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.22>Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.23>Help, help! Call help.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CAPULET</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.24>For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.25>She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.26>Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.27>Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.28>Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.29>Life and these lips have long been separated:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.30>Death lies on her like an untimely frost</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.31>Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.32>O lamentable day!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.33>                  O woful time!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.34>Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.35>Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.36>Come, is the bride ready to go to church?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.37>Ready to go, but never to return.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.38>O son! the night before thy wedding-day</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.39>Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.40>Flower as she was, deflowered by him.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.41>Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.42>My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.43>And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.44>Have I thought long to see this morning's face,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.45>And doth it give me such a sight as this?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.46>Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.47>Most miserable hour that e'er time saw</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.48>In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.49>But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.50>But one thing to rejoice and solace in,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.51>And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.52>O woe! O woful, woful, woful day!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.53>Most lamentable day, most woful day,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.54>That ever, ever, I did yet behold!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.55>O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.56>Never was seen so black a day as this:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.57>O woful day, O woful day!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.58>Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.59>Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.60>By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.61>O love! O life! not life, but love in death!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.62>Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.63>Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.64>To murder, murder our solemnity?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.65>O child! O child! my soul, and not my child!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.66>Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.67>And with my child my joys are buried.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.68>Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.69>In these confusions. Heaven and yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.70>Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.71>And all the better is it for the maid:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.72>Your part in her you could not keep from death,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.73>But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.74>The most you sought was her promotion;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.75>For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.76>And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.77>Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.78>O, in this love, you love your child so ill,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.79>That you run mad, seeing that she is well:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.80>She's not well married that lives married long;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.81>But she's best married that dies married young.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.82>Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.83>On this fair corse; and, as the custom is,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.84>In all her best array bear her to church:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.85>For though fond nature bids us an lament,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.86>Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.87>All things that we ordained festival,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.88>Turn from their office to black funeral;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.89>Our instruments to melancholy bells,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.90>Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.91>Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.92>Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.93>And all things change them to the contrary.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.94>Sir, go you in; and, madam, go with him;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.95>And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.96>To follow this fair corse unto her grave:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.97>The heavens do lour upon you for some ill;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.98>Move them no more by crossing their high will.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, PARIS, and FRIAR LAURENCE</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.99>Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>Nurse</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.100>Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.101>For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.102>Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PETER</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.103>Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease, Heart's</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.104>ease:' O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.105>Why 'Heart's ease?'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.106>O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.107>heart is full of woe:' O, play me some merry dump,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.108>to comfort me.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.109>Not a dump we; 'tis no time to play now.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.110>You will not, then?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.111>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.112>I will then give it you soundly.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.113>What will you give us?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.114>No money, on my faith, but the gleek;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.115>I will give you the minstrel.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.116>Then I will give you the serving-creature.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.117>Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.118>your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.119>I'll fa you; do you note me?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.120>An you re us and fa us, you note us.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>Second Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.121>Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.122>Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.123>with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.124>me like men:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.125>'When griping grief the heart doth wound,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.126>And doleful dumps the mind oppress,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.127>Then music with her silver sound'--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.128>why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.129>sound'? What say you, Simon Catling?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.130>Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.131>Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>Second Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.132>I say 'silver sound,' because musicians sound for silver.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.133>Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>Third Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.134>Faith, I know not what to say.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.135>O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will say</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.136>for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,'</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.137>because musicians have no gold for sounding:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.138>'Then music with her silver sound</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.139>With speedy help doth lend redress.'</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>First Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.140>What a pestilent knave is this same!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>Second Musician</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.141>Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here; tarry for the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.142>mourners, and stay dinner.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT V</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Mantua. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ROMEO</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.1>If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.2>My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.3>My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.4>And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.5>Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.6>I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.7>Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.8>to think!--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.9>And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.10>That I revived, and was an emperor.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.11>Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.12>When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter BALTHASAR, booted</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.13>News from Verona!--How now, Balthasar!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.14>Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.15>How doth my lady? Is my father well?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.16>How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.17>For nothing can be ill, if she be well.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.18>Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.19>Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.20>And her immortal part with angels lives.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.21>I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.22>And presently took post to tell it you:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.23>O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.24>Since you did leave it for my office, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.25>Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.26>Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.27>And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.28>I do beseech you, sir, have patience:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.29>Your looks are pale and wild, and do import</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.30>Some misadventure.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.31>                  Tush, thou art deceived:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.32>Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.33>Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.34>No, my good lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.35>                  No matter: get thee gone,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.36>And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit BALTHASAR</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.37>Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.38>Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.39>To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.40>I do remember an apothecary,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.41>And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.42>In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.43>Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.44>Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.45>And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.46>An alligator stuff'd, and other skins</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.47>Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.48>A beggarly account of empty boxes,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.49>Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.50>Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.51>Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.52>Noting this penury, to myself I said</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.53>'An if a man did need a poison now,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.54>Whose sale is present death in Mantua,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.55>Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.56>O, this same thought did but forerun my need;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.57>And this same needy man must sell it me.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.58>As I remember, this should be the house.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.59>Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.60>What, ho! apothecary!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Apothecary</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>Apothecary</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.61>Who calls so loud?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.62>Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.63>Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.64>A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.65>As will disperse itself through all the veins</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.66>That the life-weary taker may fall dead</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.67>And that the trunk may be discharged of breath</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.68>As violently as hasty powder fired</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.69>Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>Apothecary</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.70>Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.71>Is death to any he that utters them.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.72>Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.73>And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.74>Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.75>Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.76>The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.77>The world affords no law to make thee rich;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.78>Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>Apothecary</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.79>My poverty, but not my will, consents.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.80>I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>Apothecary</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.81>Put this in any liquid thing you will,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.82>And drink it off; and, if you had the strength</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.83>Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.84>There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.85>Doing more murders in this loathsome world,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.86>Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.87>I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.88>Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.89>Come, cordial and not poison, go with me</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.90>To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Friar Laurence's cell.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter FRIAR JOHN</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>FRIAR JOHN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.1>Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter FRIAR LAURENCE</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.2>This same should be the voice of Friar John.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.3>Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.4>Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>FRIAR JOHN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.5>Going to find a bare-foot brother out</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.6>One of our order, to associate me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.7>Here in this city visiting the sick,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.8>And finding him, the searchers of the town,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.9>Suspecting that we both were in a house</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.10>Where the infectious pestilence did reign,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.11>Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.12>So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.13>Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>FRIAR JOHN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.14>I could not send it,--here it is again,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.15>Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.16>So fearful were they of infection.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.17>Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.18>The letter was not nice but full of charge</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.19>Of dear import, and the neglecting it</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.20>May do much danger. Friar John, go hence;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.21>Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.22>Unto my cell.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>FRIAR JOHN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.23>Brother, I'll go and bring it thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.24>Now must I to the monument alone;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.25>Within three hours will fair Juliet wake:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.26>She will beshrew me much that Romeo</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.27>Hath had no notice of these accidents;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.28>But I will write again to Mantua,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.29>And keep her at my cell till Romeo come;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.30>Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter PARIS, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.1>Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.2>Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.3>Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.4>Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.5>So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.6>Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.7>But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.8>As signal that thou hear'st something approach.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.9>Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>PAGE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.10>[Aside]  I am almost afraid to stand alone</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.11>Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.</A><br>
<p><i>Retires</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.12>Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.13>O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.14>Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.15>Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.16>The obsequies that I for thee will keep</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.17>Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.</A><br>
<p><i>The Page whistles</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.18>The boy gives warning something doth approach.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.19>What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.20>To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.21>What with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile.</A><br>
<p><i>Retires</i></p>
<p><i>Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a torch, mattock,  & c</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.22>Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.23>Hold, take this letter; early in the morning</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.24>See thou deliver it to my lord and father.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.25>Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.26>Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.27>And do not interrupt me in my course.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.28>Why I descend into this bed of death,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.29>Is partly to behold my lady's face;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.30>But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.31>A precious ring, a ring that I must use</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.32>In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.33>But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.34>In what I further shall intend to do,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.35>By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.36>And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.37>The time and my intents are savage-wild,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.38>More fierce and more inexorable far</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.39>Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.40>I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.41>So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.42>Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.43>[Aside]  For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.44>His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.</A><br>
<p><i>Retires</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.45>Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.46>Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.47>Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.48>And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!</A><br>
<p><i>Opens the tomb</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.49>This is that banish'd haughty Montague,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.50>That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.51>It is supposed, the fair creature died;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.52>And here is come to do some villanous shame</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.53>To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.</A><br>
<p><i>Comes forward</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.54>Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.55>Can vengeance be pursued further than death?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.56>Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.57>Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.58>I must indeed; and therefore came I hither.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.59>Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.60>Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.61>Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.62>Put not another sin upon my head,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.63>By urging me to fury: O, be gone!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.64>By heaven, I love thee better than myself;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.65>For I come hither arm'd against myself:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.66>Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.67>A madman's mercy bade thee run away.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.68>I do defy thy conjurations,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.69>And apprehend thee for a felon here.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.70>Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!</A><br>
<p><i>They fight</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>PAGE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.71>O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>PARIS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.72>O, I am slain!</A><br>
<p><i>Falls</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.73>If thou be merciful,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.74>Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.</A><br>
<p><i>Dies</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>ROMEO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.75>In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.76>Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.77>What said my man, when my betossed soul</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.78>Did not attend him as we rode? I think</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.79>He told me Paris should have married Juliet:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.80>Said he not so? or did I dream it so?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.81>Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.82>To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.83>One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.84>I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.85>A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.86>For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.87>This vault a feasting presence full of light.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.88>Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.</A><br>
<p><i>Laying PARIS in the tomb</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.89>How oft when men are at the point of death</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.90>Have they been merry! which their keepers call</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.91>A lightning before death: O, how may I</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.92>Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.93>Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.94>Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.95>Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.96>Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.97>And death's pale flag is not advanced there.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.98>Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.99>O, what more favour can I do to thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.100>Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.101>To sunder his that was thine enemy?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.102>Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.103>Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.104>That unsubstantial death is amorous,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.105>And that the lean abhorred monster keeps</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.106>Thee here in dark to be his paramour?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.107>For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.108>And never from this palace of dim night</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.109>Depart again: here, here will I remain</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.110>With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.111>Will I set up my everlasting rest,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.112>And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.113>From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.114>Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.115>The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.116>A dateless bargain to engrossing death!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.117>Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.118>Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.119>The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.120>Here's to my love!</A><br>
<p><i>Drinks</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.121>O true apothecary!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.122>Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.</A><br>
<p><i>Dies</i></p>
<p><i>Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIAR LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.123>Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.124>Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.125>Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.126>Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.127>What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.128>To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.129>It burneth in the Capel's monument.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.130>It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.131>One that you love.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.132>                  Who is it?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.133>Romeo.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.134>How long hath he been there?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.135>Full half an hour.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.136>Go with me to the vault.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.137>I dare not, sir</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.138>My master knows not but I am gone hence;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.139>And fearfully did menace me with death,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.140>If I did stay to look on his intents.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.141>Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.142>O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.143>As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.144>I dreamt my master and another fought,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.145>And that my master slew him.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.146>Romeo!</A><br>
<p><i>Advances</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.147>Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.148>The stony entrance of this sepulchre?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.149>What mean these masterless and gory swords</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.150>To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?</A><br>
<p><i>Enters the tomb</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.151>Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.152>And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.153>Is guilty of this lamentable chance!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.154>The lady stirs.</A><br>
<p><i>JULIET wakes</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.155>O comfortable friar! where is my lord?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.156>I do remember well where I should be,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.157>And there I am. Where is my Romeo?</A><br>
<p><i>Noise within</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.158>I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.159>Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.160>A greater power than we can contradict</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.161>Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.162>Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.163>And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.164>Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.165>Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.166>Come, go, good Juliet,</A><br>
<p><i>Noise again</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.167>I dare no longer stay.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.168>Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit FRIAR LAURENCE</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.169>What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.170>Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.171>O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.172>To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.173>Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.174>To make die with a restorative.</A><br>
<p><i>Kisses him</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.175>Thy lips are warm.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>First Watchman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.176>[Within]  Lead, boy: which way?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.177>Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!</A><br>
<p><i>Snatching ROMEO's dagger</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.178>This is thy sheath;</A><br>
<p><i>Stabs herself</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.179>there rust, and let me die.</A><br>
<p><i>Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies</i></p>
<p><i>Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>PAGE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.180>This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>First Watchman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.181>The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.182>Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.183>Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.184>And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.185>Who here hath lain these two days buried.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.186>Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.187>Raise up the Montagues: some others search:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.188>We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.189>But the true ground of all these piteous woes</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.190>We cannot without circumstance descry.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter some of the Watch, with BALTHASAR</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>Second Watchman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.191>Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>First Watchman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.192>Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter others of the Watch, with FRIAR LAURENCE</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>Third Watchman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.193>Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.194>We took this mattock and this spade from him,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.195>As he was coming from this churchyard side.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>First Watchman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.196>A great suspicion: stay the friar too.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter the PRINCE and Attendants</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.197>What misadventure is so early up,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.198>That calls our person from our morning's rest?</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.199>What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.200>The people in the street cry Romeo,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.201>Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.202>With open outcry toward our monument.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.203>What fear is this which startles in our ears?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>First Watchman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.204>Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.205>And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.206>Warm and new kill'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.207>Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>First Watchman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.208>Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.209>With instruments upon them, fit to open</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.210>These dead men's tombs.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.211>O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.212>This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.213>Is empty on the back of Montague,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.214>And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>LADY CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.215>O me! this sight of death is as a bell,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.216>That warns my old age to a sepulchre.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MONTAGUE and others</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.217>Come, Montague; for thou art early up,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.218>To see thy son and heir more early down.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.219>Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.220>Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.221>What further woe conspires against mine age?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.222>Look, and thou shalt see.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.223>O thou untaught! what manners is in this?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.224>To press before thy father to a grave?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.225>Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.226>Till we can clear these ambiguities,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.227>And know their spring, their head, their</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.228>true descent;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.229>And then will I be general of your woes,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.230>And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.231>And let mischance be slave to patience.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.232>Bring forth the parties of suspicion.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.233>I am the greatest, able to do least,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.234>Yet most suspected, as the time and place</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.235>Doth make against me of this direful murder;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.236>And here I stand, both to impeach and purge</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.237>Myself condemned and myself excused.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.238>Then say at once what thou dost know in this.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>FRIAR LAURENCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.239>I will be brief, for my short date of breath</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.240>Is not so long as is a tedious tale.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.241>Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.242>And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.243>I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.244>Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.245>Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.246>For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.247>You, to remove that siege of grief from her,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.248>Betroth'd and would have married her perforce</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.249>To County Paris: then comes she to me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.250>And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.251>To rid her from this second marriage,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.252>Or in my cell there would she kill herself.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.253>Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.254>A sleeping potion; which so took effect</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.255>As I intended, for it wrought on her</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.256>The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.257>That he should hither come as this dire night,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.258>To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.259>Being the time the potion's force should cease.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.260>But he which bore my letter, Friar John,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.261>Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.262>Return'd my letter back. Then all alone</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.263>At the prefixed hour of her waking,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.264>Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.265>Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.266>Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.267>But when I came, some minute ere the time</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.268>Of her awaking, here untimely lay</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.269>The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.270>She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.271>And bear this work of heaven with patience:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.272>But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.273>And she, too desperate, would not go with me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.274>But, as it seems, did violence on herself.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.275>All this I know; and to the marriage</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.276>Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.277>Miscarried by my fault, let my old life</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.278>Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.279>Unto the rigour of severest law.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech57><b>PRINCE</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.3.280>We still have known thee for a holy man.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.281>Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech58><b>BALTHASAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.282>I brought my master news of Juliet's death;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.283>And then in post he came from Mantua</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.284>To this same place, to this same monument.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.285>This letter he early bid me give his father,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.286>And threatened me with death, going in the vault,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.287>I departed not and left him there.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech59><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.288>Give me the letter; I will look on it.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.289>Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.290>Sirrah, what made your master in this place?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech60><b>PAGE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.291>He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.292>And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.293>Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.294>And by and by my master drew on him;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.295>And then I ran away to call the watch.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech61><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.296>This letter doth make good the friar's words,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.297>Their course of love, the tidings of her death:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.298>And here he writes that he did buy a poison</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.299>Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.300>Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.301>Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.302>See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.303>That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.304>And I for winking at your discords too</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.305>Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech62><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.306>O brother Montague, give me thy hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.307>This is my daughter's jointure, for no more</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.308>Can I demand.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech63><b>MONTAGUE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.309>                  But I can give thee more:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.310>For I will raise her statue in pure gold;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.311>That while Verona by that name is known,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.312>There shall no figure at such rate be set</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.313>As that of true and faithful Juliet.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech64><b>CAPULET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.314>As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.315>Poor sacrifices of our enmity!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech65><b>PRINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.316>A glooming peace this morning with it brings;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.317>The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.318>Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.319>Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.320>For never was a story of more woe</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.321>Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.</A><br>
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